This year instead of the usual math program called Real Math, we used Connected Math. Connected Math is a math program that has eight books; each one covers different topics. For example, the first book, Prime Time, covers things like prime numbers, division, and composite numbers. Each book is considered a unit, and each unit has investigations, divided up into sections, for example, investigation 1.1, investigation 1.2, investigation 1.3, and so on. At the end of each investigation, you have to do a reflection, which goes over what you’ve done in that investigation with about 5 questions on the sections of the investigation. So far, we’ve gone over these books: Prime Time, Bits and Pieces 1, Shapes and Designs, Bits and Pieces 2, Covering and Surrounding, and we’re currently working on How Likely is It?. We have a binder with five sections, Class work, homework, assessment, reference, and vocabulary, and each section has the corresponding thing in the section. We also have a notebook in the vocabulary section, which we use to write down all of our vocab. terms.
My favorite book so far is the one we’re currently doing, called “How Likely is It?” and it (as you might have guessed) has the probability of things. For example, all of investigation 1 is about a boy named Kalvin who wants to eat coca blast for breakfast, and his mom wants him to eat health nut flakes. So in each section, it shows a different way to decide whether he eats coca blast or health nut flakes. In investigation 1.1, they flip a coin; heads is coca blast, and tails is health nut flakes. In investigation 1.2, he decides to flip a paper cup, if it lands on an end, he gets coca blast, and if it lands on its side he gets health nut flakes. In investigation 3.1, Kalvin flips a bent coin and gets coca blast more often, then his mom tells him that his coin’s chances aren’t equally likely of getting coca blast and health nut flakes. In investigation 1.4, he flips two coins instead of one.
This year instead of the usual math program called Real Math, we used Connected Math. Connected Math is a math program that has eight books; each one covers different topics. For example, the first book, Prime Time, covers things like prime numbers, division, and composite numbers. Each book is considered a unit, and each unit has investigations, divided up into sections, for example, investigation 1.1, investigation 1.2, investigation 1.3, and so on. At the end of each investigation, you have to do a reflection, which goes over what you’ve done in that investigation with about 5 questions on the sections of the investigation. So far, we’ve gone over these books: Prime Time, Bits and Pieces 1, Shapes and Designs, Bits and Pieces 2, Covering and Surrounding, and we’re currently working on How Likely is It?. We have a binder with five sections, Class work, homework, assessment, reference, and vocabulary, and each section has the corresponding thing in the section. We also have a notebook in the vocabulary section, which we use to write down all of our vocab. terms.
My favorite book so far is the one we’re currently doing, called “How Likely is It?” and it (as you might have guessed) has the probability of things. For example, all of investigation 1 is about a boy named Kalvin who wants to eat coca blast for breakfast, and his mom wants him to eat health nut flakes. So in each section, it shows a different way to decide whether he eats coca blast or health nut flakes. In investigation 1.1, they flip a coin; heads is coca blast, and tails is health nut flakes. In investigation 1.2, he decides to flip a paper cup, if it lands on an end, he gets coca blast, and if it lands on its side he gets health nut flakes. In investigation 3.1, Kalvin flips a bent coin and gets coca blast more often, then his mom tells him that his coin’s chances aren’t equally likely of getting coca blast and health nut flakes. In investigation 1.4, he flips two coins instead of one.
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